Today’s ride was sandwiched between writing a Riak map-reduce job and hosting a dinner party for friends. So I leave home and within 500m a car starts blaring it’s horn; this is not uncommon is not uncommon in Sydney. I turn round to see what the problem is but he just carries on blaring his horn & not catching my eye. Now, it’s my right of way so I keep my position in the lane and he carries on blaring his horn. This goes on for about 500m. I pull up at a red light and ask the guy what the problem but he’s still not engaging so I take the confrontational route and take his lane. I could argue that I was in the right as I was about to turn right. The guy starts blaring his horn and I turn right, he’s still blaring his horn so I stop in the middle of the road, get of my bike and try and see what his problem. Still not engaging I carry on, he carries on horn still going. Again this keeps going until I turn off in Annandale. A total of about 2km.

I genuinely do not understand what motivates people to behave like this. But behave like this they do. So I carried on and did a few laps before going home to greeting our guests. In my cycling gear. Ar well it was a lovely evening.

People blare there horns all too often here but I’ve never had anything like this happen before.

Viva la Tour.